التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: |
Comprehensive, continuous, and compulsory monitoring of frailty in elderly. |
المؤلفون: |
Deore, Hiranya, Taranikanti, Madhuri, Gaur, Archana, Varatharajan, Sakthivadivel, John, Nitin, Katta, Roja, Taranikanti, Sai, Umesh, Madhusudhan, Ganji, Vidya, Medala, Kalpana |
المصدر: |
Journal of Family Medicine & Primary Care; Dec2023, Vol. 12 Issue 12, p3194-3199, 6p |
مصطلحات موضوعية: |
FRAILTY, GERIATRIC psychiatry, OLDER people, CORONARY artery disease, ACTIVITIES of daily living, WELL-being |
مستخلص: |
Background: The increasing elderly population makes frailty an increasing concern in society with vulnerability to stress and functional decline. Unrecognised comorbidities are common among the elderly due to lack of mention by the patients. Physicians should be equipped with effective interviewing skills along with the use of screening tools to assess any impairments in activities of daily living, cognition and signs of depression. Objectives: To measure the degree of independence or dependence using scales and stratify patients based on Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) so as to recommend it as a routinely usable tool. Materials and Methods: In total, 191 elderly subjects above the age of 65 years were recruited for geriatric assessment. Tools that assess performance in daily living activities and cognition were used. The prevalidated CFS was used to score frailty to stratify patients into frail and non-frail groups, and the parameters were compared. Results: Mean age of the study population was 69.54 years with 53.4% males and 46.6% females. Mean Katz index and mean Lawton score were >5. The mean Global Deterioration Scale (GDS) score was 1.5, and the mean clinical frailty score was 3.55. Significantly high number of male individuals were found in the frailty group. Hypertension was significantly higher in the frail group. The mean Katz scores were significantly lower, and mean GDS scores were significantly higher in the frailty group. Multivariable logistic regression has shown gender to be an important determinant of frailty with an odds ratio of 0.05 (CI-0.01-0.20). The higher Lawton score and GDS scores were significantly associated with frailty with an odds ratio of 0.33 (CI: 0.21–0.52) and 2.62 (CI: 1.14–6.02), respectively. Conclusion: Men are more frail than women and co-morbidities like hypertension and coronary artery disease contribute to frailty with cognitive decline and decreased autonomy. A comprehensive assessment to identify frailty will provide a holistic view of well being among the elderly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |